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Originally Posted by SoccerTaco
If you pop forward solely to draw a foul, does 18-1 come into play here and negate the foul on the blocker?
Rule 18-1:
Strategies aimed solely at forcing the opposing ALLIANCE to violate a rule are not in the spirit of FRC and are not allowed. Rule violations forced in this manner will not result in assessment of a penalty on the target ALLIANCE .
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No, the rule regarding the feeder and pyramid safe zones specifically designates that it doesn't matter who initiates contact.
18-1 is intended to prevent things like loading discs into another robot so it has more than 4 or pushing an opposing robot into one of your own partners that is trying to climb, so that the opposing robot gets huge penalties.